Lesson Plan

Week of: February 11-15

THEME: Valentines Day GOALS: Language o Recognize and trace F o Children will independently go to their circle time seat o Children will sit at their circle time seat for 30 seconds o Identify a heart o Recognize first letter of their name o Recognize and say their vocab words o Recognize the colors red, blue, green, and yellow Self-Help Skills o Learn how to use cup without lid, even with spilling o Use fork/spoon at least twice during the week o Actively recognize when its clean-up time, and independently put away toys o Recognize when it is time to take off and put on jacket Cognitive o Participate in hand motions during songs o Sit on spot during story time o Recognize when to say please, thank you, your welcome o Recognize following body parts, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, toes, and belly Emotional o Appropriately share one toy when asked o Recognize when theyre sad Physical o Learn how to dance Social o Independently approach a friend to play/share Opening (circle time): Ask children to find their seats Music and Finger plays: Skita Marinka Skita Marinka dinka d-dink, skinna marinka doo I love you. (arms alternate waving like palm tree, I (point) love (cross) you (point)) Skita Marinka dinka d-dink, skinna marinka doo I love you. (arms alternate waving like palm tree, I (point) love (cross) you (point)) Skita Marinka dinka d-dink, skinna marinka doo I love you. (arms alternate waving like palm tree, I (point) love (cross) you (point)) I love you in the morning and in the afternoon, (arms make sun, lower sun) I love you in the evening, and underneath the moon (arms make cradle, back to sun) Skita Marinka dinka d-dink, skinna marinka doo I love you. (arms alternate waving like palm tree, I (point) love (cross) you (point)) Tuesday Activity- Valentines Bingo PREPARATION Print a Valentine Bingo board (printable) for each child and Bingo Master Cards (printable) for teacher. Have a bag of

skittles or M&Ms ready for bingo pieces. ACTIVITY Hold up the Bingo Master Cards one at a time and explain what each picture is and why it has to do with Valentines Day. Give each child a bingo card. As you hold up a Master Card give each child an M&M or Skittle to place on their matching picture. Thursday Activity- Valentine Pass-out PREPARATION Send note home to each parent asking them to have their child bring valentines (NO CANDY) for each student in the class. ACTIVITY Talk to the children about receiving valentines and giving valentines. Teach them about saying thank you, and your welcome. Repeat this rhyme as the children are handing out their valentines to each other. Music and Finger plays: Valentine For You

(Sung To: 'Farmer in the Dell ') A valentine for you A valentine for you A valentine, a valentine A valentine for you.
Friday Activity- All of Me PREPARATION Cut multiple hearts out of Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, and Green construction paper. ACTIVITY Give each child a colored heart. Hold up each color heart one at a time and have the child/children with that color do something active (dance, jump, hop, roll, etc). Center Sensory Read-Aloud Story: *LIST BELOW, Find one at library for the week (You can read both a shape and color book each day or alternate) Phonics: Play Letter F Video Category Day T Activity Jell-O Description Make pink and red Jell-O with conversation hearts and glitter sprinkles set into it. Put it in the sensory table with cups, spoons, forks, etc. Let children play with it. Materials Needed Jell-O Conversation Hearts Glitter sprinkles Cups, spoons, forks, etc. Sensory Table Sensory Table

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Red Soap

Add dish detergent and red food

coloring to water in sensory table. Provide egg beaters or wire whisks to make bubbles. Make sure to provide other manipulatives such as c ups too.

Shaving Cream

Texture bags of color

Centers

Creative Art

Pop-up Heart Hat

Fine Motor

Tissue Paper Hearts

Fine Motor

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Juice Can Magnets

Fill sensory table with shaving cream. Swirl watered down food coloring through it. Provide sticks etc for them to swirl. Have pieces of paper there so they can make marble art if they want to. Help them to lay paper on top of shaving cream, remove it and then scrape shaving cream off (leaving a marbled pattern) In each baggie that you want to make, add 5 tablespoons of cornstarch, 1/2 cup water, and a few drops of coloring. Mix ingredients well, until completely blended together. Add the oil. Seal the baggie, getting all of the air out of it. Place the baggie flat on a table and tape the edges down onto the table. As the children push the "write" on the bags, the mixture will change as it is used and then as you let it rest! You can make these with the children or make them in advance. Get a paper plate for each child. Fold in half and cut out shape to make heart (Example found here http://alphamom.com/familyfun/holidays/diy-holiday-hats-forevery-occasion/) Have each child decorate their own hat to wear for the rest of the day and take home. Have children paint their entire paper (cut out in a heart) with vinegar. Then have them cover it with tissue paper. After the vinegar has dried have children peel of the hearts to reveal stamps made by the paper all over their heart. Give each child the metal top of a juice can (great because they dont have sharp edges). Put Elmers glue into the top of the lid. Give children small craft supplies (beads, sequins, confetti, glitter, etc.) to press into the glue. Once dried add a magnet to the back.

Water Red food coloring Dish detergent Wire whisks (egg beaters) Other manipulative Sensory table Shaving cream Food coloring Sticks, etc. Heart shaped paper

cornstarch water vegetable oil large ziploc bags liquid water color or food coloring masking tape

Paper Plate Crayons, markers, glitter, glue, sequins, etc.

Tissue paper (pink, red, purple) Paper (cut in heart) Vinegar Paint brushes

Juice can tops Small craft supplies Elmers glue Magnets

Creative Art

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Coffee Filter Hearts

Cooking

Kiss Krispies

Have them give to their mom or dad as a valentine to stick on the fridge! Cover table with a waterproof tablecloth or shower curtain. Children color the hearts with markers. They spray them with the spray bottles and watch the colors run together! Have MANY hearts available as many of your children will want to make a lot of these! Encourage them to color with just red and blue so they can see the shade of purple that they make. Experiment with other colors as well! VARIATION: Instead of spray bottles, provide the children with eye droppers and small cups of water to drop water where they want. Great fine motor skill practice! *These dry very quickly. Have children help you make rice krispie treats: 3 tb butter or margarine 4 cups miniature marshmallows 6 cups rice krispies Melt butter over low, add marshmallows and stir until melted. Remove from heat and add cereal. Stir until well coated. Let cool for a few minutes. Give each child a funnel and help them to pack the rice krispie treat mixture into the mold made from the funnel. Let finish cooling. Wrap in foil with paper sticking out the top like a tag. Makes a large take home kiss for their valentine! http://media-cachelt0.pinterest.com/upload/12687491447 2133972_o5IcHZsH.jpg Hide these hearts throughout the room or area you will be playing this (outside is fun as well!). Tell the children they need to find all the hearts. You can also have them try to find all the hearts before a certain song ends. PLAY MUSIC AND DANCE! Have the children dance around the room as the music plays. When the music stops, they have to find a heart and stand on it!

Coffee Filters cut into hearts Markers Spray bottles with water

6C Rice Krispies (generic brand) 3 Tb Butter 4 C Mini Marshmallows Funnel for each child Tinfoil Paper with By my Valentine written on it for tag

Movement/Music

Hide N Seek Hearts

Large hearts of different colors cut out of construction paper MUSIC

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Heart Stompin Fun!

Large hearts of different colors cut out of construction paper (can use the same from day

EXTENSION: When the music stops and they are all on a heart, hold up or say a number and have them stomp or hop on their heart that many times! PLAY MUSIC AND DANCE! Play music have each child take a turn tossing the bean bags into the heart shape on the floor. PLAY MUSIC AND DANCE!

before) MUSIC

Toss

Bean bags Heart shape drawn on floor in masking tape MUSIC

Weekly Vocabulary Words: Red Pink Heart Love

Body Part Books A Sunday Stroll By Paul Porgese A Valentine for Ms. Vanilla by Fred Ehrlich Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox Hearts, Cupids, and Red Roses: The Story of the Valentine Symbolsby Edna Barth How Raggedy Ann Got Her Candy Heart My First Raggedy Ann by Jan Palmer I Like Youby Sandol Stoddard, Jacqueline Chwast (Illustrator) I Love You the Purplestby Barbara M. Joosse If You'll Be My Valentineby Cynthia Rylant Queen of Heartsby Mary Engelbreit Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stinkby Diane deGroat (Illustrator) Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli The Best Thing About Valentines by Eleanor Hudson The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond (Illustrator) The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn The Night Before Valentine's Day by Natasha Wing, Heidi Petach (Illustrator) The Story of Valentine's Day by Nancy Skarmeas, Stacy Pickett-Venturi (Illustrator), Stacy Venturi-Pickett (Illustrator) The Very Special Valentineby Maggie Kneen Today is Valentine's Dayby P. K. Hallinan

Valentine Hearts : Holiday Poetryby Lee Bennett Hopkins Valentine's Day Isby Gail Gibbons You and Meby Martine Kindermans (Illustrator) You Are My I Love Youby Maryann Cusimano Love Valentine School Parties by Wilhelminia Ripple

Links http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/valentine_art.html http://www.prekinders.com/valentines-theme/ http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/valentines/index.htmhttp://www.angelfire.com/dc/childsplay/Valentine s_Day_Theme.htm http://www.first-school.ws/theme/h_valentines_day.htm http://www.preschool-plan-it.com/valentines-day.html http://pinterest.com/janamarie76/valentine-preschool-theme/ http://pinterest.com/staceyfeehan/valentine-s-theme-in-preschool/